{"id":26528,"date":"2024-04-11T00:30:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/otto-lilienthal-facts-list\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T00:30:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T14:30:12","slug":"otto-lilienthal-5-amazing-facts-about-the-german-aviation-pioneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=26528","title":{"rendered":"Otto Lilienthal: 5 Amazing Facts About The German Aviation Pioneer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Who was the first to fly? The average school kid will likely reply to the Wright brothers in 1903. However, the French had already flown in a balloon (lighter-than-air aircraft) in 1783 and <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/first-powered-lighter-than-air-flight-history\/\">built the first powered and steerable airship in 1852<\/a>. In the 1890s, a German named Otto Lilienthal built the first manned gliders (heavier-than-air unpowered aircraft).\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Otto Lilienthal achieved the first heavier-than-air manned flights and paved the way for the Wright brothers a few years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,7621,120,3790,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aviationpioneers","category-europe","category-first-flight","category-history"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26529,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26528\/revisions\/26529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}